National Music Camp

1. A Long Night's Journey Into Day
(News/Latest)

...uy a cup of coffee and a local newspaper, and still get change back from a shilling. You also had three weeks of Music Camp in which to formulate your ideas. So for this year’s WAMmers, we were...

2. Like children in a lolly shop: WAM participants visit the National Library
(News/Latest)

...h the National Library of Australia and also the National Film and Sound Archive (which we visited last week), we all leave Canberra buzzing with excitement for the potential of musical research in Au...

3. Composers in Time
(About WAM/Writings)

...n International Summer School in England, where he  worked with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies for three weeks. This year Chris is looking forward to his position as Young Composer in Residence with Th...

4. Philip Arkinstall: Alumni Profile
(About WAM/Writings)

...cademy with tutors from the Berlin Philharmonic. I got to sit next to the principal clarinetist for two weeks playing chamber music.  We played Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet, with Kirsty Hilton ...

5. Ian Cleworth: Alumni Profile
(About WAM/Writings)

...elt I could get away with the sneakers. How rewarding is it listening to the students perform after a week of rehearsals and tutorials? After the concert on Saturday many people were saying congratu...

6. Genevieve Lang: Alumni Profile
(About WAM/Writings)

...tring broke during a performance. We had borrowed a harp from London for the tour, and within the first week about nine strings had broken. The Program was Pavane pour une infante défunte, Bart...

7. Anton WEBERN (1883-1945)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

...g positions in order to follow Schoenberg around Austria, on one occasion relocating to Vienna within a week of Schoenberg’s move. Schoenberg introduced his newly-perfected serial music –...

8. Radio Feature: Inside Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra
(Gallery/Audio)

...tal concludes with a performance of Bartok’s modern masterpiece, the Concerto for Orchestra. This week’s interval feature attempts to tell the story behind this remarkable work, as well as...

9. Week 2
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10. Orchestral Concert Week 2
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11. Orchestral Concert Week 1
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12. An orchestral appetiser
(Gallery/Video Gallery)

...rk provides various rhythmic challenges for individual players and the ensemble as a whole. During the week, students have participated in a number of rehearsals and tutorials, as well as other camp ...

13. Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

...condly that this movement was sketched only days after Tchaikovsky’s proposal to Antonina (only a week after their first meeting). A final reprise of the fate motive reminds us of eternal suffer...

14. Czech your baggage on arrival
(Snippets/Snippets)

... Vltava (The Moldau) in its planes after they land. Smetana’s work will be performed in the first week of National Music Camp. Czech Airlines plays the main theme from Bedrich Smetana’s V...

15. Claire Tomlin: Consuming Passions
(About WAM/2010 Participants)

Seven weeks apart, and Claire and her clarinet are starting to have second thoughts. “I’m beginning to get withdrawal symptoms," Claire explains, “I’m remembering what

16. Welcome to National Music Camp 2010!
(Home/Home)

...st Howard Penny and some of the best music tutors from Australia and abroad. Over the course of the two weeks, the work of the students will be showcased through the National Music Camp Free Concert S...

17. Welcome to National Music Camp 2010!
(Home/Home)

...st Howard Penny and some of the best music tutors from Australia and abroad. Over the course of the two weeks, the work of the students will be showcased through the National Music Camp Free Concert S...

18. Welcome to National Music Camp 2010!
(Home/Home)

...st Howard Penny and some of the best music tutors from Australia and abroad. Over the course of the two weeks, the work of the students will be showcased through the National Music Camp Free Concert S...

19. Dining Hall Etiquette
(Archived/News/Latest)

There is no doubt: the dining hall experience is quintessential college living.  Few other situations boast the opportunity to dine with 300 of your closest friends, or test endurance and stamina

20. Getting back into the swing of things
(Archived/News/Latest)

The hurried ‘click’ of pencils on music stands was a common sound last night as music camp participants returned from their free day to resume rehearsals at the University of Adelaide. Fac

21. The Promise of Music
(Archived/About WAM/Writings)

...ey to the 250 young people currently gathered in Adelaide to create music together over a period of two weeks. ...

22. Vision of greatness
(Archived/News/Latest)

Torelli. Gade. Piazzolla. Gardel. Hindemith. Elgar. And what a soundscape it was. The first orchestral concert for National Music Camp was a huge program, involving 250 young musicians, three c

23. Colin Cornish: what I'm looking forward to during NMC2009
(Archived/Gallery/Video Gallery)

...out Music participant Hannah-Reardon Smith about what he is most looking forward to during the next two weeks. ...

24. Staff Chamber Concerts
(Archived/News/Latest)

Two violins, a viola, cello and a clarinettist took the stage last night to bring the beauty of Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B minor to an enthralled music camp audience.

25. 1709: A Postcard
(Archived/Snippets/Snippets)

Did you know that in the same week Giuseppe Torelli died (2nd of February 1709) Alexander Selkirk was rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.&nb

26. Claire Tomlin: For the love of music and words
(Archived/About WAM/2010 Participants)

Listening to Claire Tomlin talk about the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, it is immediately apparent that this is a girl with both a passion for music and an ability to express

27. Australian National Music Camp Statistics
(Archived/Snippets/Snippets)

... include nine sets of siblings and a set of twins, will consume 11,970 catered meals throughout the two-week camp period....

28. A Match Made in Heaven
(Archived/News/Latest)

This is the second year in a row faithful volunteers Michael Hallit and Cameron Harker have kept the camp library running smoothly, the mini buses speedy and the musicians laughing heartily.

29. Camp infiltrates local radio
(Archived/News/Latest)

...usicians as lofty, boring, elitist types in favour of enthusiatic party animals (at least for these two weeks). The details of some of the music-making too was not neglected in the broadcast, of ...